Tartar's Ferry Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Tarter's Ferry Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This particular one was a 9-panel Parker through truss that carried Tarter Ferry Road over the Spoon River near Smithfield, Illinois.”
Wikipedia article Tarter's Ferry Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Fulton County · listed in 1980 · category: Structure.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Spans Spoon River SW of Smithfield, Smithfield, 61482
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. structure
Also known as. Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County TR
Township. Farmers township
National Register reference number. 80001363 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithfield, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Smithfield	$30,000	A tornado touched down in a field about 1.5 miles ESE of Smithfield at 4:38pm CDT. The tornado travelled slowly southeastward, impacting one farmstead along its path. A pole barn and small shed were destroyed, with flying debris from the barn causing minor roof and siding damage to the house. The tornado continued along its path doing minor crop damage along the way before dissipating 3 miles SSW of Cuba at 4:48pm CDT.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	$10,000	Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	$4,000	Two power poles were snapped near Smithfield.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	$2,000	A tree was blown onto IL-95 near Smithfield.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	A power pole was snapped and a tree was blown over.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	Power poles were blown down.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Smithfield	-	Roadway damage occurred along Route 95 due to flash flooding.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	Two telephone poles leaned over due to high winds.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down from Marietta, to Smithfield, to Lewistown.
June 2002	Tornado (F0)	Smithfield	-	A tornado touched down 1.2 miles northwest of Smithfield at the west end of Stevens Road in a field. The tornado then briefly lifted before touching down once again in a field near Old Miller Lane. An unoccupied 15 foot travel trailer was picked up and destroyed. The tornado then lifted and dissipated. No injuries were reported.
August 2023	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
June 2020	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Smithfield	-	no account filed
May 1995	Hail	Smithfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Seville Bridge	2.8 miles	1980
Bernadotte Bridge	3.3 miles	1980
Buckeye Bridge	6.3 miles	1980
Table Grove Community Church	6.7 miles	1979
Carithers Store Building	6.8 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001363 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fulton County	All 38 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.